What are fellowships?

[snowbear]

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What are fellowships? Does everyone do them after residencies?

Thanks

 

[nutmegs]

They are sub-specializations, usually a year or two years long. For instance, specializing in pediatric or neuroanesthesia after an anesthesia residency. Not everyone does them.

 

[snowbear]

Thanks so much, not in the dark anymore 🙂

 

[HiddenTruth]

As nutmeg stated above, you don't have to do fellowships; however, keep in mind that many subspecializations DO require fellowships. Most medicine specialties require a fellowship after your Internal medicine residency ( which is 3 yrs) e.g. if you want to do cardiology that is a 3 year internal med residency plus a 4 year cardio fellowship, where as something like pediatrics by itself or family medcine, radiology are just residencies. You can opt to subspecialize under those and do a fellowship (interventional radiology, pediatrics cardiology, etc).

(P.S -- nutmeg: Most fellowships are atleast 3 years long. Infact I don't know of any that are less than that, except maybe some surgery fellows).

 

[nuclearrabbit77]

there are many fellowships that aren't 3 years long.

pediatric head-neck surgery, facial-plastics head-neck surgery, neuro-otology, skull-base surgery are almost all 2 years long.

and that's just for ENT....

 

[HiddenTruth]

Originally posted by HiddenTruth
... except maybe some surgery fellows).

Thanks.

 

[sacrament]

Yes, there are LOTS of fellowships 1-2 years in length. Surgery, neurology, pathology, psychiatry, etc. all have some relatively short fellowships.

 

[HiddenTruth]

I woud love to hear some non-surgical fellowships that are less than 3 yrs. I consider ENT as a surgical specialty.

 

[sacrament]

Originally posted by HiddenTruth
I woud love to hear some non-surgical fellowships that are less than 3 yrs. I consider ENT as a surgical specialty.

Neuropathology: usually 2 years

Cytopathology: 1 year

Forensic psychiatry: 1 year

Nuclear medicine post rads residency: 1 year

Obstetric and gynecologic anesthesia: 1 year

Stroke fellowship (neurology): 1 year

MS fellowship (neurology): 1 year

Pediatric derm: 1 year

Various concentrations (e.g. pediatric) post rads: 1 year


Now I'm getting bored. I could go on and on. There are tons of these; how is it that you've never heard of them?

 

[nutmegs]

Originally posted by HiddenTruth
(P.S -- nutmeg: Most fellowships are atleast 3 years long. Infact I don't know of any that are less than that, except maybe some surgery fellows).

hehe my bad all I know about is the anesthesia ones and they're 1-2. sorry!! 😀

 

[Bobblehead]

Internal medicine fellowships (roughly):

General medicine fellowship: 1 year
Geriatrics: 1 year
Allergy/Immunology: 1-2 years
Rheumatology: 2 years
Endocrine: 2 years
Pulmonary (without critical care, very rare nowadays): 2 years

 

[BiggMann79]

Orthopedic sports medicine is a 1 year fellowship and Primary care sports medicine is also I believe.

 

[Whisker Barrel Cortex]

Most radiology fellowships are one year: Musculoskeletal, Body imaging, most interventional fellowships, MRI, some neuroradiology. Neuro is 2 at many places but 1 year at some. Many nuclear medicine fellowships are actually 2 years.

 

[jbish]

PM&R fellowships for stroke and MS are both one year as well (same as Neurology). They're definitely nonsurgical fellowships.

 

[elias514]

How difficult is it to get into a fellowship? What determines whether or not a person gets into one?

 

[Bobblehead]

Depends on what type of fellowship you're talking about. Regarding internal medicine fellowships the most competitive at the moment seem to be cardiology (matched) and GI (unmatched). Less competition for most of the rest but some traditionally uncompetitive subspecialties (allergy) are turning the corner as those programs no longer simply have their choice of lifestyle applicants but rather are looking for candidates to build their research programs. For any subspecialty trying to get into a "top 10" program will be competitive. Popular cities will be more difficult to get into, etc. It's like residency but a far more nebulous and seemingly random process.

Politics play a huge role in fellowship selection. Programs may have made selections years in advance internally and not even offer spots to external candidates during certain years.

Who you know, who writes your letters of recommendations, which internal fellowships (i.e. at your institution), and what type of research you've done during residency will determine your ability to secure a fellowship.